Saturday, December 7, 2019

WWII Remembrance - Highly recommend: Ghost Soldiers, The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission, Hampton Sides, 2002, Anchor Books




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On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation. ...

https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Soldiers-Account-Greatest-Mission/dp/038549565X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ghost+soldiers+by+hampton+sides&qid=1575739223&sr=8-1